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Chapter 10. Teaching bodies

Visual and haptic communication in martial arts
  • Larissa Schindler
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Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion
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Abstract

The article is concerned with teaching and learning embodied knowledge in a martial arts class. It argues that in pair exercises of motion sequences practitioners do not only enact something together in a shared corporeality. Rather, these exercises are also communicative means. We can therefore speak of haptic communication once physical contact between bodies is made in the expectation that the other participant will understand the contact as a sign and react to it in a certain way. In martial arts classes different forms of contact between bodies are accomplished in order to create embodied experience about the movement order the students wish to learn.

Abstract

The article is concerned with teaching and learning embodied knowledge in a martial arts class. It argues that in pair exercises of motion sequences practitioners do not only enact something together in a shared corporeality. Rather, these exercises are also communicative means. We can therefore speak of haptic communication once physical contact between bodies is made in the expectation that the other participant will understand the contact as a sign and react to it in a certain way. In martial arts classes different forms of contact between bodies are accomplished in order to create embodied experience about the movement order the students wish to learn.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors xi
  5. Chapter 1. Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction 1
  6. Part I. Interkinesthetic coordination and intercorporeality in team sports
  7. Chapter 2. Practice as a shared accomplishment 27
  8. Chapter 3. Intercorporeality and interkinesthetic gestalts in handball 57
  9. Chapter 4. Visual and motor components of action anticipation in basketball and soccer 93
  10. Chapter 5. Constructing cooperative and antagonistic intercorporeality 113
  11. Part II. Intercorporeal relations with moving bodies and objects in individual sports
  12. Chapter 6. Rock climbers’ communicative and sensory practices 149
  13. Chapter 7. Intercorporeal enaction and synchrony 173
  14. Chapter 8. Sound joined actions in rowing and swimming 193
  15. Chapter 9. “It’s really strange when nobody is watching” 215
  16. Part III. The enactive acquisition of embodied knowledge
  17. Chapter 10. Teaching bodies 245
  18. Chapter 11. Intercorporeal (re)enaction 267
  19. Chapter 12. Ways of relating 301
  20. Chapter 13. Intercorporeality with imaginary bodies 323
  21. Chapter 14. Afterword 345
  22. Index 355
https://doi.org/10.1075/ais.8.10sch

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. List of contributors xi
  5. Chapter 1. Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction 1
  6. Part I. Interkinesthetic coordination and intercorporeality in team sports
  7. Chapter 2. Practice as a shared accomplishment 27
  8. Chapter 3. Intercorporeality and interkinesthetic gestalts in handball 57
  9. Chapter 4. Visual and motor components of action anticipation in basketball and soccer 93
  10. Chapter 5. Constructing cooperative and antagonistic intercorporeality 113
  11. Part II. Intercorporeal relations with moving bodies and objects in individual sports
  12. Chapter 6. Rock climbers’ communicative and sensory practices 149
  13. Chapter 7. Intercorporeal enaction and synchrony 173
  14. Chapter 8. Sound joined actions in rowing and swimming 193
  15. Chapter 9. “It’s really strange when nobody is watching” 215
  16. Part III. The enactive acquisition of embodied knowledge
  17. Chapter 10. Teaching bodies 245
  18. Chapter 11. Intercorporeal (re)enaction 267
  19. Chapter 12. Ways of relating 301
  20. Chapter 13. Intercorporeality with imaginary bodies 323
  21. Chapter 14. Afterword 345
  22. Index 355
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